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Monday, March 17, 2008 12:00 AM

How photos support your own "reality"

Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.

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  • Sunday, March 16, 2008 08:26 PM

    Qui bono.. a latin phrase often used in the legal field.. It means "who profits"

    The Project for a New American Century, PNAC..

    Their documentation explicitly pines for a "new Pearl Harbor" in order to bring America to a war footing and initiate moving toward their goals

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

    Within months of them assuming power, voila' they get a new Pearl Harbor.

    Operation Northwoods was a plan to create false flag terrorist attacks in the US.. A plan concocted by the US Department of Defense during the Cuban missile crisis era.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

    The Tom Clancy book "Executive Orders" has an airliner crashing into the Capitol building..

    Then there is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which was used as a reason to drastically increase American involvement in Vietnam.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident

    In 2005, it was revealed in an official NSA declassified report[2] that the Maddox first fired warning shots on the August 2 incident and that there may have been no North Vietnamese boats at the August 4 incident. The report said

    [I]t is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night. [...] In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August.[3]

    Then of course we have the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq which we were absolutely assured that the government not only knew existed but that they knew just where they were..

    I think we all know how that one turned out..

    Niger yellowcake..

    Jessica Lynch..

    The list of government lies is almost literally endless..

    Fool me once, shame on you.. Fool me twice shame on me..

    And to top it all off we have the Anthrax mailer. Within mere hours we knew of all the 9/11 hijackers..

    The Anthrax mailer? Six years later and nobody in the government gives the slightest damn.

    It's interesting that the very first anthrax victim in the USA was employed by American Media Inc..

    Then there is the matter of the Ctheney administration taking Cipro *before* the anthrax attacks..

    One can be either a conspiracy theorist or a coincidence theorist..

    This post is right off the top of my head and there are a great many more very strange things about what happened on 9/11/2001..

    Look for yourself, I'm not even going to provide links, the bizarre goings on are easily found with teh google.

    There's an old saying in the military: Once is happenstance, twice is circumstance, three times is enemy action..

    We are way past three times..

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